Re: Securing Linux based public access terminals

[Shyam Mani <fox2mike () gmail com>]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:48:33 +0100, Andrew Shore
<andrew.shore () holistecs com> wrote:

> What I would like to is run a Linux workstation (RedHat probably 9 even
> though it's out of support) but when the user logs into the windows
> session all they get is the browser. No menus no right click on the desk
> top just a basic single application "dumb terminal". I've seen this done
> before but it was too well secured for me to see how it was done! Also
> I'd like to the workstation to log straight in as a local user with out
> user intervention.

Look up Kiosk Mode. That's what you're looking for.

KDE Specific - http://tldp.org/HOWTO/KDE-Kiosk-Mode/index.html
General Kiosk Mode - http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kiosk-HOWTO.html

PS : These are a bit outdated, but they're helpful.

-- 
Shyam Mani
http://xinetd.accosted.net/

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